Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019

In this newscast:

  • Parents wrestle with impossible “what ifs” after their 19-year-old daughter’s death,
  • Wrangell’s Evergreen Elementary School wins national recognition as a “distinguished school,”
  • the city of North Pole encourages residents with contaminated groundwater to sign up for municipal water service,
  • Quinhagak closes its airport to all night flights due to disabled runway lights,
  • an Anchorage company fires and disciplines workers caught on video throwing Amazon delivery packages,
  • 58 mushers sign up for the 2020 Iditarod,
  • for the first time a Native American justice is appointed to Washington state’s highest court, and
  • the Tennessee Aquarium gets an electric eel to light up Christmas lights.

Jeremy Hsieh

Local News Reporter, KTOO

I dig into questions about the forces and institutions that shape Juneau, big and small, delightful and outrageous. What stirs you up about how Juneau is built and how the city works?

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